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by geniusmind4

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Hello, i am having a strange problem, i cannot access a certain folder in my hard drive and its giving me error message ..... access denied u donot have permission.
the hard drive is on my computer i have the administrative rights but i cannot access it, if i take properties of that folder everything is disabled.....neither i can change security permission, share it or delete it
please help mee...

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by geniusmind4

Its an ordinary folder, there is nothing unusual about it.

by seanferd

and are you sure you do not have a virus, worm, or trojan on the system?

by computercookie

If the students have full access maybe they have access to change the properties.

Have you checked accessibility to the other folders?

Could a student/s have stood over the shoulder of a teacher and noted his logon?

He may have thought about it and decided to change his password later, but in the mean time they have used DC or Admin profiles to lock you out?

Jeff

by geniusmind4

Its windows 2000 server with service pack 3
Yes m sure, and this is not cause of virus, becoz once it happened after i formatted my hard drive and then installed windows,and after tht i got the same error msg on my D drive i.e second partition.
Also everything else in that drive is working fine just 2 folders giving this error, i can send u snapshop if required.

by seanferd

Have you tried this in Safe Mode?

If it doesn't work there, are you comfortable doing this with cacls.exe CLI tool? Ya gotta be REAL careful with that.

Does 2000 sp3 have "Simple sharing" like XP? You may need to tun it off.
In XP, it is: Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced > uncheck Use Simple Sharing

Here are some articles I have found, also.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225745/en-us
Administrators Can Remove Themselves from the Permissions for a Shared Resource.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266118/en-us
How to restore the default NTFS permissions for Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250494/en-us
"Access Is Denied" Error Message Appears When Permissions Are Correct (encrypted file)

by bizzo

If you're logging on locally to the machine, ie. not through a domain, and you rebuild the server then the permissions on your second partition, which I assume hasn't been rebuild, will be wrong.

Is it possible to take ownership of the files/directories on your D: drive?

by rob miners

but it's not a good idea putting your email up like that Jeff. Just suggest that they PM you.
Rob

by boxfiddler Hot topic

you just exposed yourself to the webcrawlers. It would be a good idea to edit that post and suggest the member pm you. Or pm the member with the update if you don't think s/he will see the edit.

by computercookie

it is about to be deleted, due to spam issues. My ISP is stupid and won't address blatant spam issues with this account. I get spam from jeff.cook@mpx.com.au and any other mpx.com.au account, I have tried to explain to them that a quick check of company records shows that it's not trading, the company name has been change to the company number etc. So I'll delete it again and just use my assigned address.

by geniusmind4

I have mailed the snapshot,
now there is something more interesting..... the folder which has this problem, cannot be accessed from the system where it is located, but it can be accessed from where it is mapped
m totally confused

by geniusmind4

Dear fellows........ i mailed u the snap shots ......no replies :( help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee plzzzzzzzzzzzzz

by computercookie

OK, not sure, but who has access to these folders?
If the students have full access maybe they have access to change the properties.

Have you checked accessibility to the other folders?

Could a student/s have stood over the shoulder of a teacher and noted his logon?

He may have thought about it and decided to change his password later, but in the mean time they have used DC or Admin profiles to lock you out?

Jeff
Posted: 01/23/2008 @ 11:01 PM (PST)

Suggest you try the following link;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

by geniusmind4

Well, the folder is mapped to the student, only that student have access , i can access everything on that drive and folder where this folder reside.

by absolutely

If you have tried any of the steps from the articles already posted, what has been the result? Troubleshooting away from the computer is not easy. Doing it without [u]detailed[/u] information is a complete waste of the diagnosticians' time. Jeff seems to have been trying to be more polite than that, but as a result maybe wasn't clear.

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